Bennett Cerf famous quotes

04-17-2025

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
-- Bennett Cerf

#Happiness #Laughter #Blessed
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
-- Bennett Cerf

#Ignorance #Ordinary #Gross
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
-- Bennett Cerf

#Night #Lasts #Detroit
Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count for something. The fun of reading is not that something is told to you, but that you stretch your mind. Your own imagination works along with the authors, or even goes beyond his, yields the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.
-- Bennett Cerf

#Sports #Fun #Reading
Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.
-- Bennett Cerf

#Football #Men #Years
I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
-- Bennett Cerf
The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?
-- Bennett Cerf

#Peace #War #Age
Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.
-- Bennett Cerf

#Speech #Green #Cold
They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly, too, without a single stutter. Later he explained, "I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me."
-- Bennett Cerf

#Prayer #Home #Sunday
For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
-- Bennett Cerf

#Beautiful #Laughing #Sound
Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy
-- Bennett Cerf

#Crazy #Fame
Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.
-- Bennett Cerf

#Self #People #Noses
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
-- Bennett Cerf

#Soup #Noise #Eating
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
-- Bennett Cerf

#Birthday #Age #Middle
Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
-- Bennett Cerf

#Art #Teaching #Deep Thought
One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come upon the little-read school boy.
-- Bennett Cerf

#Education #Teaching #School
There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college professor!
-- Bennett Cerf

#Teaching #College #Today

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